Letter from PIF & AMCHAM Pharma Committee to the Prime Minister: Dear Prime Minister, At this particularly critical juncture for the pharmaceutical industry, we address you as the Board of Directors of PhARMA Innovation Forum (PIF) and the Committee of Pharmaceutical Companies of the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce, to express our deep concern about…
Fewer than 2 out of 10 treatments are covered by the state, severely limiting patients’ access to innovative and critical therapies. Following the meeting between the Minister of Health, Mr. Adonis Georgiadis, and the pharmaceutical industry associations, the issue of mandatory clawback payments for the first half of 2023 is being hastily addressed, with the…
PhARMA Innovation Forum (PIF) and its 26 biopharmaceutical member companies express their deep concern over the impasse regarding patient access to innovative therapies. According to official data from the National Central Purchasing Body for Health Sector (EKAPY), shared with our companies and covering the first half of 2023, the mandatory clawbacks due to budget overruns…
A new Board of Directors was elected by the General Assembly of the members of PhARMA Innovation Forum (PIF) Greece, held yesterday. The new Board came together earlier today for the first time to assign internal roles and responsibilities. As a result of this procedure, Labrina Barmpetaki, President & Managing Director, Abbvie Pharmaceuticals Greece, Cyprus…
Innovation plays a key role in all areas of human activity. However, its contribution to the health sector, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic, is now indisputable. As the General Manager of PhARMA Innovation Forum Greece, Mariangela Ekonomopoulou, tells NEWS247: «The enormous positive impact of innovation on people’s lives is additionally attested by the increase in…
The debate on the contribution of the private health sector to society, the national economy and entrepreneurship is an excellent occasion not so much to record the multiple benefits coming from this contribution, but mainly to start a meaningful dialogue around its limits, i.e. around the required balance between the private and public sectors in…
